to me from the Committee of the Cholera
Fund in Bristol 20l., which the gentlemen constituting it had voted for
the benefit of the twenty children who had lost their parents in the
Cholera, and whom I had received into the New Orphan-House.

I had not applied either directly or indirectly for this money; indeed I
was reluctant even to give information as to the number of Cholera
Orphans received, lest there should be even the appearance as if after
all I asked for money, instead of solely trusting in the living God. But
some of the gentlemen on the Committee, knowing the fact that I had
received many Orphans, made such by means of the Cholera, proposed that
there should be paid to the Institution a sovereign on account of each
such child received. This sum was especially remarkable to me as a fresh
proof of the numberless ways, which God has at His command for providing
me with means.

I also cannot help noticing the remarkable coincidence that, at the time
God visited this land with the Cholera, in 1849, I had so much room for
the reception of Orphans. The Lord was pleased to allow me the joy and
sweet privilege of receiving altogether twenty-six children, from ten
months old and upward, who lost their parents in the Cholera at that
time, and many besides, since then, who were bereaved of their parents
through this fearful malady.

Jan. 31. Today five more Orphans are to be received. For the last
fortnight, comparatively little had come in for the Orphans, i.e. not
quite 60l. In the prospect of the Orphans coming today, I said last
evening to my dear wife, that the Lord would send us something for them;
for I have often found, that either He has sent something with the
children, or at the time that they have been received. It was but about
ten minutes after I had said so, when I received 450l. (see the account
of the income for the other objects), of which I took 200l. for the
Orphans. This morning I received further 10l. from a pious countess in
Edinburgh, and 10s. from Deptford. Thus the Lord has indeed sent
something for the Orphans. It is now seven months and thirteen days
since the Orphans began to be received into the New Orphan-House. The
expenses for them have been since then Fifteen Hundred and Twenty
Pounds; and yet we have this day more in hand, than when the New
Orphan-House was opened. Unbelief and natural reason would have said,
and did say, If there have often been scarcely any means in hand, while
th